182 quotes found
“Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every successful woman there are wonderful parents”
“Son, make this world a better place with that beautiful mind of yours. And when you have a family of your own, love them beyond measure even when it means letting them be free to do what God intend...”
“Now and adult, allowed a glimpse of these first cracks in my family's perfect surface, I couldn't help but wonder what else I didn't understand about us all.p 60”
“Your Barney? Coles eyebrows shot up. Yours?Hes mine all right! Claire replied. Everyone in this family belongs to everyone else belongs with everyone else, rather. Ive looked after him for a year ...”
“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time my father lost his temper, right under her heart. Feeling the stone in her calmed m...”
“Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life u...”
“It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like ones tongue p...”
“As a young man I started searching for my own identity by looking into family, friends and insideMyself. My mother always taught us to live free even when confined, meaning never let anyone break y...”
“What about Danny Thomas?" Uncle Hal asks. "What happened to him?"Dead," Uncle Abdelhafiz says. "Nice Lebanese boy.""Never mind about Danny Thomas, look what happened to your whole family! Look at y...”
“It ain't locked, till it's checked!”
“Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very inter...”
“Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.”
“Hades," Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance." "I'm afraid not." Hades sighed. "My son here convinced me that perhaps I should prioritize my list of enemie...”
“Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture.”
“I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.”
“Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they need to draw. I do not accept competitive models of love, o...”
“My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that only I noticed. I thought about him going into my mom's room when she was little and hitting my mom ...”
“But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she...”
“There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.”
“Family that was my older sister Tiffany as well. My emotional spectrum for her covered everything from my dearest sister, foundation of my heart and soul up to you fucking bitch, go and get run ove...”
